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Manfred Woidich

مانفرد فويديش

Notable figure b. 1943 · Source: The British Academy, Fellow profile: Professor Manfred Woidich FBA · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 1019585501: Woidich, Manfred (b. 1943), professor emeritus of Arabic, University of Amsterdam

From Germany; worked in the Netherlands

Field: Dialectology

Affiliation

Dialectologist; Das Kairenisch-Arabische (2006)

Biography

He took his doctorate in Semitic studies at Munich (1969) and taught Arabic at the University of Amsterdam, where he is professor emeritus. With Peter Behnstedt he made the atlas of Egyptian dialects, Die ägyptisch-arabischen Dialekte, in several volumes (1985–1999), and then the Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte (from 2011); he also wrote a full grammar of Cairene Arabic, Das Kairenisch-Arabische (2006).